Denef–Lipshitz conjecture on integral Diophantine extensions

Let LL be a number field. An extension L/KL/K is integrally diophantine if the ring of integers OK\mathcal{O}_K is a diophantine subset of OL\mathcal{O}_L, and a subset is diophantine when it is existentially definable by polynomial equations over the ambient ring. The Denef–Lipshitz conjecture asserts that

Denef–Lipshitz conjecture. For every number field LL, the extension

L/QL/\mathbb{Q}

is integrally diophantine; equivalently, Z=OQ\mathbb{Z}=\mathcal{O}_{\mathbb{Q}} is a diophantine subset of OL\mathcal{O}_L.

This would imply a negative answer to Hilbert's tenth problem for the rings of integers of all number fields. The conjecture is attributed to Denef and Lipshitz and is unresolved in general.

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Primary source

Katharina Müller and Anwesh Ray, “Hilbert's tenth problem for families of Z_p -extensions of imaginary quadratic fields”, arXiv:2406.01443 (2024).

Additional references

5 papers in this index state this conjecture (2019–2024). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2304.09742, arXiv:2302.04157, arXiv:2206.06296, arXiv:1909.01434.

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